Fatalistic
adjective
Believing that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
He had a fatalistic view of life, so he was never surprised by any outcome.
adjective
Accepting all things and events as inevitable.
Though the odds were against them, the soldiers marched with a fatalistic determination.
Often appears as...
- fatalistic attitude
- fatalistic acceptance
adjective
In the belief that you cannot change anything because your life is controlled by a power outside yourself.
Many people in the area have a deeply fatalistic approach to life.
adjective
Believing that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
He had a fatalistic view of life, so he was never surprised by any outcome.
adjective
Accepting all things and events as inevitable.
Though the odds were against them, the soldiers marched with a fatalistic determination.
Often appears as...
- fatalistic attitude
- fatalistic acceptance
adjective
In the belief that you cannot change anything because your life is controlled by a power outside yourself.
Many people in the area have a deeply fatalistic approach to life.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Inevitability Focus
Stresses that outcomes cannot be changed, suggesting acceptance rather than active resistance.
Her fatalistic belief made her accept the job loss without seeking alternatives.
Pro Tip 2/2No Surprise
Means not being shocked by events, since they think everything is predestined.
Mike's fatalistic outlook meant he just nodded when hearing the predictable news.
Pro Tip 1/2Inevitability Focus
Stresses that outcomes cannot be changed, suggesting acceptance rather than active resistance.
Her fatalistic belief made her accept the job loss without seeking alternatives.
Pro Tip 2/2No Surprise
Means not being shocked by events, since they think everything is predestined.
Mike's fatalistic outlook meant he just nodded when hearing the predictable news.
Pro Tip 1/2Inevitability Focus
Stresses that outcomes cannot be changed, suggesting acceptance rather than active resistance.
Her fatalistic belief made her accept the job loss without seeking alternatives.
Pro Tip 2/2No Surprise
Means not being shocked by events, since they think everything is predestined.
Mike's fatalistic outlook meant he just nodded when hearing the predictable news.
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Ellie Goulding
English Musician
As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
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David Limbaugh
American Author
It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.
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Charlotte Rampling
French Actress
I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?
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Martin Landau
American Actor
You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
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Laura Esquivel
Mexican Author
Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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Brian Gleeson
Irish Actor
I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.
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Chris Hemsworth
Australian Actor
I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
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Lorna Luft
American Actress
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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Prince
American Singer
I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.
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Ellie Goulding
English Musician
As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
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David Limbaugh
American Author
It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.
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Charlotte Rampling
French Actress
I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?
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Martin Landau
American Actor
You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
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Laura Esquivel
Mexican Author
Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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Brian Gleeson
Irish Actor
I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.
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Chris Hemsworth
Australian Actor
I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
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Lorna Luft
American Actress
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
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Prince
American Singer
I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.
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